It seems that Sidney Glanville wrote an unpublished book about Borley? He tries to claim in it that he never believed the stuff about Marie Lairre, yet in the BBC broadcast he actually clams to be utterly convinced by it. Everything about Borley is so inconsistent and paradoxical it makes my head swim. I have had to alter my 'The Well Tank Bothers Me' Sidelight to try to keep up with the various discoveries. Where IS Sidney Glanville's manuscript? It would be very nice to get hold of this. It is mentioned in the HBR book which implies that it was published in manuscript form. It would be nice to get it and make it available for study 'Fifteen Months in a Haunted House' would be a wonderful book to publish, together with the rest of 'Fifteen Months in the Most Haunted House in England'. It has never seen the light of day. it is terrific news that Barbara has volunteered to illustrate it. Funnily enough, I was wondering about [art work] too. I like what she did for the website. What a good idea, because no photos exist of the inside of the house in the Foyster incumbency, though we have Marianne's descriptions. It would be something special to get close, visually, to the look of the place in the thirties. Tony Cornell and Alan Gauld are literary executors for Mrs Baines (who wrote the excellent book draft that is on your site.) They would really like to see her book used somewhere. You will remember that this book was to have been published together with Sidney Glanville's book, and some of Peter Underwood's stuff in one volume edited by Paul Tabori. Mrs Baines was the 'researcher' Price was talking about when he annnounced his third book. Of course he never lived to write it. Mrs Baines tried but never got beyond the first draft, and didn't have the writing flair. After Price's death, the third book was origibally planned to be a team effort combining Glanville, Baines and Underwood under the editorship of Tabori. That all fell through, and Peter Underwood went on to write his book alone. One idea we've been bouncing around is that of publishing all these hitherto unpublished books as a set. The combination of volunteer effort, modern micropublishing and some IT cleverness should make this sort of project perfectly viable. I'm beginning to be reminded of the wonderful faximile package that Stewart Evans did about Jack the Ripper for the Public Records Office. (Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders by Stewart P Evans and Keith Skinner ISBN 7-903365-39-2) The idea is that we do these small books in a box. All reproduced is a thirties/forties style as though they got published, as a kit for Borley Rectory lovers. FMMHHE, Mrs Baines Book, Sidney's book, perhaps even the Locked Book. - Andrew Clarke

This summer, we paced out the dimensions of the lawn of Borley Rectory on our lawn and did a little re-enactment of the sighting of the Nun in 1900. We waited until an hour after sundown. (we charitably chose a completely clear evening) We assumed that the nun was seen from the summerhouse at the closest point on the Nuns Walk, about 30 yards. (it was spotted first at the end of the lawn near the stream) The Rectory had a pretty huge lawn (yes, ours is even bigger). Our conclusions were that it would be impossible to see the Nun's face, or any great detail. The lighting conditions are deceptive. Our neighbours must have wondered what on earth we were doing I've re-written the Sidelight about the sighting of the Nun accordingly.

Did you know that all the original photographs of the "flying brick" were retained by the photographer and distinctly show that there were three workmen demolishing the building at the time, and one of them was throwing bricks around. It is amazing what keeps coming out of the woodwork in the Borley case. I find writing about Price very difficult as any criticism seems to cause deep offence with some people, and I'm trying my best to be fair to the man. I've added a new Sidelight giving all the details. - Andrew Clarke

I am on the Council of The Ghost Club, the oldest paranormal society in the world and am spending a weekend in Borley on a Club function in the middle of next month - when I'll be picking up the item from the seller who I will be staying with . . . . I will also be spending a lot of time with Ted Babbs (author of Borley - The Final Analysis) who I have met before. Not with Harry Price, alas! Have you ever been to Borley or is it just a world away? I've got a few photos I took when I was last there in 1996 I can scan in for you . . . . I certainly am happy to send you scans of all the photos I'll be taking when I go there next month. I take it it IS the ghosts you are keen on, not the village itself? . . . . Sorry again to have outbid you - I know how angry it makes me when it happens to me and though that is the name of the game I do sympathise! - Philip Hutchinson

I just got back from a local Catholic Church, St. Therese. They haven't any nuns walking around in habits, (was going to come back with my camera:)) but they did have a book about St. Therese, a catholic nun from France, cannonized and made a saint. They had a book with pictures of her, and the girl at the front desk made some pictures from it, the pictures are of her in her nuns outfit and there was one that is perfect for the painting. Since it is a french nuns habit from the late 1800s it has a decendency from the 1600's outfit, i actually recognize the resemblence. I'm just starting on the nun from this picture today. - Barbara Clements

Just stumbled across this part of the seance material in the Ivan Banks book, The Enigma of Borley Rectory. Which was copied from The Locked Book. Ivan speculates ..."So far I have been unable to identify Santiago Monk, unless there was some involvement by a spanish Catholic monk, perhaps in connection with the nun. There is however , one other possibility, that it is something to do with Sir Edward Waldegrave, for when she objected to the marriage of Queen Mary to Philip of Spain, he was 'reassured' with a pension of 500 crowns. . . . . I find it a bit odd that they should have been so interested in Santiago Monk in 1937. I think Mr Arbon must have told Glanville and Henning about him. As you know, Santiago Monk was alive at the time and living in Chile from whence he sent your mother a postcard. Ivan obviously didn't check your website and it is typical of the man that he should launch into fanciful speculation - Andrew Clarke

There's quite a lot of Borley material floating around at the moment. Henning's Haunted Borley is on eBay at the moment & there have been at least two copies of EBR with dust jackets in very good condition. I don't have an Inky Way Annual - there are several copies on the secondhand book website Abebooks for very reasonable prices, less than £10. The Inky Way on eBay went for over £40 which is pushing it a bit. I think my biggest indulgence (to date) on eBay was for a copy of Price's Stella C which is signed by Price & has his bookplate plus a business card when he was Foreign Research Officer for the American SPR. - Paul Adams

A group of us visited Borley Churchyard on 29 September 2004. The weather was cloudy and dull, however it was not misty and at no point did it rain. A previous visit last week was far more spooky and my friend and I sensed a definite presence, this time it was much calmer and the air was less oppressive, however I took approximately 50 photographs. we noticed nothing that is discernable in these photographs at the actual church so coming home and finding these images was quite surprising. Firstly the Church Door, When I took the photograph I felt a strong presence as if something pushed me back away from the gate. I have sent 4 copies of the same image, one clear, another highlighting the first ghost, a second highlighting a further ghost and finally a detailed version, the lower of the two ghosts appears to resemble a cross between Jesus and John Lennon! it appears to be putting its hand over its mouth as if it were shocked, the larger ghost appears to be angry, perhaps that could explain the strange force which moved me back. Secondly the church wall ghost. Although this is much less clear to the eye it is definitely visible on the photograph, about 5 foot tall, round head with definite eye sockets and either a mouth or a mouth and nose hole, thin neck and body is detectable. Its more unnerving due to the fact that it appears to be staring at the camera whilst my friends aren't! The graveyard ghosts, the glowing orange eyes in the background almost mirrors Shaun Copples photograph on your website, although my photograph was taken in a different part of the churchyard altogether! At first I thought that the small ghost next to the gravestone with the cross might have been one of the small stone statues but after studying photographs on your site I such as the ones on Malcom Mitchells page I notice that no statue exists in this position, you can also see 2 glowing eyes in this picture, however one is white and one is green. My friend said that she saw a spirit light in that position shortly after I took the photograph. The strange lights and orbs encountered by Malcom Mitchell are also present in my photographs, some of the orbs are quite large and quite bright, a zoom in of one of them reveals an almost face-like presence, it appears to be smiling! Although it was cloudy it did not rain and it was very dry air so this rules out the theory of Stephen D Smith suggesting it was down to moisture. The Monk on lawn photograph, although very dark and unclear does appear to show a small robed person walking away from the camera, head bowed. The head in the bushes is also quite dark. However, if you zoom into it something does appear to be there. - Nicholas Sheperdson